Nicholas Penny (priest) explained

Nicholas Penny (18 September 1674  - 18 January 1745) was Dean of Lichfield from 1730[1] [2] until his death.[3]

Penny was born in St Dunstan-in-the-West, City of London and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge.[4] He held livings at Hardwick, Cambridgeshire, Hickling, Nottinghamshire and Beddington, Surrey. He died in Beddington in 1745.

Notes and References

  1. "The Present State of Great Britain and Ireland" Miege, G p66: London, J.Brotherton, 1738
  2. https://www.reading.ac.uk/web/files/special-collections/Stenton_Family_MS_950.pdf University of Reading
  3. "Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857- Volume 10, Coventry and Lichfield Diocese" Deans of Lichfield, Pages 5-8: Institute of Historical Research, London, 2003
  4. [Alumni Cantabrigienses|Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900]